The NHS in ruins: Small state private medical care is the future?
You would have to have been living on a desert island, celebrity obsessed or just plain ‘not interested’ to know there is an issue with NHS funding. The issue at stake is not that there is a funding...
View ArticleHas anything changed? The malefactors of great wealth.
I came across a quote in Oreskes and Conway’s (2014) ‘The Collapse of Western Civilization’ from a speech made by a national leader. At this point, I will not name or date the speechmaker. I thought it...
View ArticleNHS Dissatisfaction levels are perhaps not yet high enough to embolden the...
How satisfied with the NHS are we? The British Social Attitudes Survey has been tracking satisfaction levels since 1983. In 2011 it reached the highest it had been (64%), much higher than the 39%...
View ArticleThe missing two C’s – commodity and critique
http://tinyurl.com/the-missingtwoCs This is the link to the published article in the Journal of Research in Nursing. This discussion paper argues for understanding nursing care as a commodity within...
View ArticleChoose your parents
Alejandro Nieto. Bernal Heights. San Francisco. What has the death of a young man, shot by four police officers in a park in California got to do with with understanding health outcomes in the United...
View ArticleTo the Guardian: A Political Manifesto for Nursing in unjust times
A Political Manifesto for Nursing in unjust times Despite general satisfaction and support for nurses and the NHS by the public, there are continuing issues that threaten to undermine the trust given...
View ArticleHow responsible am I for my health 2
How responsible am I for my health? The answer to that question from the dominant discourse is an overwhelming “very”. This response sits alongside more scholarly understandings of the social...
View ArticleThe neoliberal revolution and Health
Neoliberalism has various meanings, but many commonalities (Hall, 2011). Nurses in the UK’s NHS, alongside their colleagues elsewhere, may not be familiar with the term but they will be familiar with...
View ArticleHunt’s agenda
The ideology of health care provision. Amid the junior doctors strike of 2016, the health secretary Jeremy Hunt was embroiled in a conflict with the BMA over doctors’ contracts designed to address...
View ArticleA Fistfull of Dollars
Sir Philip Green is pictured alongside Kendall Jenner, Cara Delevingne and Rita Ora at some fashion award bash. They are all very glamorous of course, Green aside who has his arms around the waists of...
View ArticleClimate change is an unsolvable wicked social problem?
Climate change is an unsolvable wicked social problem? The following outline of climate change as a wicked problem (Rittel and Weber 1973) is based on a reading of Reinar Grundmann’s (2016) ‘Focus...
View ArticleAre we selfish b*stards driven by our own self interest?
Self interest as a human nature driver for happiness? The drive of self-interest for material well-being has been seen to be a fundamental aspect of human nature, particularly since the Enlightenment...
View ArticleNeoliberalism: Rhetoric and Reality.
This paper was prepared as background to the 4th edition of ‘Communication and Interpersonal skills in nursing (Grant, A. and Goodman, B. forthcoming). In that book discourses of neoliberalism and...
View ArticleAlpha Males, Psychopaths and Greedy Bastards,
Alpha Males, Psychopaths, Greedy Bastards. In October 2016, during the United States presidential campaign, the Washington Post released a recording of Donald Trump made in 2005. Trump was heard to be...
View ArticleThe richest 1,000 people have more wealth than the poorest 40% of households...
The richest 1,000 people in the UK have more wealth than the poorest 40% of UK households. The 1,000 richest saw their wealth increase by a staggering £82.5 billion last year, the equivalent of £226...
View ArticleNeoliberal rhetoric dies in May’s manifesto
In a previous post I argued that ‘neoliberalism’ was more rhetoric than reality. Now that the 2017 Tory manifesto has been published, even the rhetoric has been publically ditched. The ideology of the...
View Article“Malefactors of Great Wealth” in the Oval office
I came across a quote in Oreskes and Conway’s (2014) ‘The Collapse of Western Civilization’ from a speech made by a national leader. At this point, I will not name or date the speechmaker. I thought it...
View ArticleMay’s ‘Free’ market blather is anti Corbyn rhetoric
Photo by Thomas Charters on Unsplash Theresa May is ‘frit’. Jeremy Corbyn argued (September 2017) that the neoliberal model of capitalism is broken. In response, May argues: “A free market economy,...
View ArticleThe neoliberal revolution and Health
Neoliberalism has various meanings, but many commonalities (Hall, 2011). Nurses in the UK’s NHS, alongside their colleagues elsewhere, may not be familiar with the term but they will be familiar with...
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